On Tonights Channel 9 News. 21/09/2010

[Dog_ger]

Adelaide SA.

Paid parking at hospitals....

If you park in a hospital Carpark, you must pay a carpark fee.

WTF...

Anyone else concerned....

Drive yourself to hospital, having a heart attack.

Take a ticket at the toll gate.

Or just visiting a loved one....

[JAS]

You'd love it here then cos you already have to pay for hospital carparking...staff and visitors.

They're trying to get of it but it makes money.

Regards
JAS

[locky801]

Adelaide SA.

Paid parking at hospitals....

If you park in a hospital Carpark, you must pay a carpark fee.

WTF...

Anyone else concerned....

Drive yourself to hospital, having a heart attack.

Take a ticket at the toll gate.

Or just visiting a loved one....

I went to visit a mate at the repat today when they were doing that story, I drove around the grounds for 20 minutes looking for a park, they were all full, plus was Daws Road and surrounding side streets, absolute joke if they are going to charge people

[mighty_tiger_79]

I thought it was just the repat they wanted to charge at?

perhaps they realise they wont be able to sell it to get the money so lets create a parking fee

[fisho mcspaz]

Flinders Med charges up the arse. I went to emergency about ten times last year and it was so much easier to get Mr McSpaz to drop me off, then chuck a U turn and park the car further away from the hospital.

[heater31]

Why is this news???

Royal Adelaide has charged since I can remember

Flinders Med slugged me some fees and their ticket machine got my goat even more.....or maybe it was the drugs they gave me inside

even my closest Hospital Ashford even charges........


is it a slow news day or something

[mighty_tiger_79]

having had the unfortunate requirement of flinders med centre high dependancy unit recently, my gf was surprised at the $12 fee which was over 10hrs or so. Thought it was quite reasonable.. Just dont wanna do it everyday tho

[Brucetiki]

Why is this news???

Royal Adelaide has charged since I can remember

Flinders Med slugged me some fees and their ticket machine got my goat even more.....or maybe it was the drugs they gave me inside

even my closest Hospital Ashford even charges........


is it a slow news day or something

Agreed, in the mid-90's when I had a mate in the Memorial hospital they were charging for parking back then.

[Sojourner]

Why its considered newsworthy, is because in the State Budget it was revealed that they are doubling the cost of parking in a Hospital Car Park, which is going to hit the hip pocket of a number of people that are struggling on the disability pension and so on.

[Hazbeen]

Go to the Womens & Childrens and its either park in the multi level at $4 an hour or find a 2 hour metred park on the street. No free parking there!

[therisingblues]

In Japan they charge you for parking at hospitals, if youare a patient there though you can get your car parking ticket stamped when you check out so parking is free for people who have business at the hospital.
I think this is a fair system. In Japan fights have been known to erupt over car parks, with so many people in such a small area the issue of car parks is more urgent than in Australia.
On the other hand they don't have medi-care in Japan. So we take the god with the bad I guess.
P.S Do you still have free health care in Australia?

[Barto]

Go to the Womens & Childrens and its either park in the multi level at $4 an hour or find a 2 hour metred park on the street. No free parking there!

There's a shit fight here in Perth with SCG Hospital upping their fees, the reasoning being that people who work in the city are taking advantage of the hospital being in proximity to the CBD and abusing that. Imagine if the W&C hospital was cheaper, the same would be happening.

[Barto]

In Japan they charge you for parking at hospitals, if youare a patient there though you can get your car parking ticket stamped when you check out so parking is free for people who have business at the hospital.
I think this is a fair system. In Japan fights have been known to erupt over car parks, with so many people in such a small area the issue of car parks is more urgent than in Australia.
On the other hand they don't have medi-care in Japan. So we take the god with the bad I guess.
P.S Do you still have free health care in Australia?

The Coalition didn't get in, so yes.

[Psyber]

In Japan they charge you for parking at hospitals, if youare a patient there though you can get your car parking ticket stamped when you check out so parking is free for people who have business at the hospital.
I think this is a fair system. In Japan fights have been known to erupt over car parks, with so many people in such a small area the issue of car parks is more urgent than in Australia.
On the other hand they don't have medi-care in Japan. So we take the god with the bad I guess.
P.S Do you still have free health care in Australia?

The Coalition didn't get in, so yes.

But under a Labor government - if one lasts long enough - free health care will be severely rationed [it's called "prioritised"] as it is in the UK's NHS.
[Ask anyone who currently needs public Psychiatric services even as close to a city as Mt Barker.]

Under the Coalition the option of cutting out the long waiting lists, by going private, will remain affordable, even for the pensioner's I know who keep theirs going for that reason.
[I paid my mother's for her for years because I figured a lady in her 80's would get low priority in an overloaded ER. She made it to 98, although she was in the grip of dementia in the last few years.]